February 18, 2013

Tyrannosaurus fossil embroiled in custody case will be returned to Mongolia | GlobalPost

Tyrannosaurus fossil embroiled in custody case will be returned to Mongolia | GlobalPost: "A Mongolian Tyrannosaurus fossil will return home, after a US federal judge ruled the 70-million-year-old dinosaur would be forfeited to the US government from paleontologist from Erik Prokopi — accused of smuggling the remains out of the Gobi desert.

The nearly-complete T-Rex fossil first hit the news over the summer, when Prokopi sold the skeleton at a New York auction for over $1 million, wrote the BBC.

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